New subject: Problem with a Huawei USB modem and Linux on a Asus laptop

4 May 2010

Hi, 

I've been experiencing a very bizarre problem : 

I have an ASUS laptop with Windows Vista and a Huawei USB modem with a Tango subscription
[mobile internet]. It works just fine under Vista. 

A couple of days ago I got from a magazine a DVD with several Linux distributions, I tried
some of them [namely Suse and Mandriva] in the live-CD mode [running from the DVD] and
they seemed to work fine. They even recognized the Huawei, configured it without a problem
and the internet connection was pretty good. As a matter of fact much faster than Windows
! 

So, I decided to install Mandriva on the hard disk, installation went just fine [multiple
boot with grub], and internet was excellent. 

And then I shut down and when I turned the PC on the following day, I had no internet and
Mandriva did not even see my Huawei modem! I tried several times with the other
distributions from my DVD but nothing. Huawei had disappeared completely!!! 

Still I can use it without any problem from Windows ! 

Does anybody have an idea ? Who can help me ?

thanks in advance

Nikolas NASSOS